That would explain it - although that sucks because I like the Borders near me better. It's still a frustrating mag from the stand point that UK releases lag behind the states making some of the articles FAR behind the products compared to normal pubs which are merely lagging behind the web.
I never even looked at the subscription cost - holy crap - over 130.00? Haven't the english figured out the value of advertsing metrics tied to a hard-subscription model? That's why pubs are cheap in the US. I used to work for Pulizer publishing, and the most reputable numbers to use as a guide for ad-buys were those from actual subscriptions vs. the shot in the dark at the newstand. If you include the pass-through (sharing) of magazines sent to homes the numbers increase pretty heavily. That's why the subscription is basically at-cost or subsidized to the point of postage. It's worth far-far more than the money spent on advertising, and it generates more revenue.
Of course the UK can't be bothered with these obvious facts, and would rather gouge the hell out of the reader. Nice. Suddenly I feel like quite the patriot at the moment - but I can't stand W. Bush. BLAH.
Joystik and Video Games circa the early 80s were decent. The latter had great long articles, and the former - aside from the large strategy guides - had the best artwork and layout of any game-publication of it's time.
Edge is nice, but the delay in the UK releases - and that PRICE - make it a rare buy for me. In fact, I haven't seen it around Borders in the SF Bay area for a while now. Was it discontinued?
Careful - if you even hint that you like sony - you'll be modded into the toilet by the Nintendo fanboys. So will I, but fuck-it.
Or put another way similar to "digg" - lessie over 110 million PS2s sold - OM(fucking)G! PONIES!!!!!???! Someone likes PLAYSTATION? Holy fucking SHIT!!!!!
Make it read - Aliens Breeding "Super Mosquitoes" - and it's solid. Ready for the Weekly World News and other fine publications. Perhaps even the theregister.co.uk.
Think it would be great - after hearing the recording goofs portion - to have a video reel of the recording session outtakes included on the DVD extras on the next Futurama compilation?
With John DiMaggio's high energy it sounds like it would be quite a hoot.
Well heck, the cable bill was such a stunning success for all consumers in America when it passed, and of course the Digital Copyright act was also another great win for American consumers as well.
One is narritive and one is background. In your world, "plot" must mean wallpaper, "dialogue" must mean sound effects, and "video game" means pong.
The story was driven by "characters" saying "dialogue" over "scenes", with "plots". Oh I'm sorry -that's fucking "setting" to you. A movie has - um - what then?
GTA3 - Story about a bank heist double cross and a series of mob bosses that double cross each other plus a media tycoon whose nuts, and the eventual catch up with said bank double cross.
Sounds like a fucking story.
Vice City - Cocaine deal goes bad, you have to track down and infiltrate the guy who did it, pick up a power-hungry parter (or 3) and double cross the origonal family that didn't reward you for going state's evidence.
Sounds like a fucking story.
San Andreas - Bad cops, toss you into the gang wilderness, and you have to build your way up with minor turf wars until you work with regional mob bosses and the governement.
Sounds like a fucking story.
The article - which I read - put out in glowing letters, that the open sandbox nature of the game lent itself for only player driven narritives. This is bullshit. So Mod me down fuckos, or play the goddamn game.
Nice troll - good to see your score reflects that (MOM SLASHDOT IS INSANE AGAIN). The moron was claiming that GTA didn't have a story line. Uh - lessie - that would be 100% wrong. But then you probably didn't play GTA otherwise you'd know that.
I mean What - The - Fuck - those voice actors were just making dialogue tracks for the porn stars?
Won't have reached hollywood cannon or audience expectations until a few things have been achieved:
Characters insist on staying in a dangerous situation or location - like an abandonded summer camp - until every single person (save one) is killed by a single protagonist.
When characters find a basement, they proceed to go down regardless of whether it's important to waste time with the basement at all.
If there is a basement, there should be no lights available.
When a toolshed, garage, or cache of supplies is found, the main character will bypass all tools and weapons that would otherwise be usefull, for flashlight or some item that only McGyver could make dangerous.
When the caracter finds himself (or herself) surrounded by undead or hellish circumstances, the opportunity to blattently rip-off (badly) three-stooges routines should not be missed.
Chainsaws - more of them. Can't go wrong with chainsaws. Why does Grand Theft Auto - a decidedly un-horror game - seem to be the only game that really gets-it here?
I'm sure I'm missing out on several hundred other examples - but I've got more work to pretend to do. In the meantime - RE1's "you the master of unlocking things" Jill has only scratched the surface of what is required from gamemakers.
In the interest of not reading the article and thus providing the right amount of fuel needed for a lame question or joke...
What do you mean by "stationary 3 times en route". The thing is going to go from whatever bat-out-of-hell speed it's traveling, to a dead stop - not once, but 3 TIMES during the ascent?
Cartoon physics aside (which are hillariously significant), doesn't subjecting the human body to such rigors resemble something akin to "bug on windshield"?
If that's the case, then we will not only have succeeded in a new form of space travel - but in creating a whole new way of terrifying the next generation of astronauts in a manner unimaginable - at least for a brief moment - before they're turned into a colorful and dramatic splatter.
Just the thing for Fox's next big "extreme idiots killing themselves and losing limbs during tiger attacks and tornadoes while driving at high speed away from the cops and into day-care centers" show.
For people to unleash holy terror on the blackmail circut. I'm amazed how many tools lawmakers provide in this regard.
Now, we can create documents and emails that will create a massive data-trail for the police while shaking down the target all in the privacy of your offshore spoofed server. Brilliant. Ka-Ching!
Thank you America! Thank you! Nigeria, start your engines!
I'm not sure about that - the cost of flying over there - with entourage, would make this for a rather expensive PR stunt for a man of his means (see wikipedia). I don't doubt for a second that he was serious about the meeting with the French PM. I also don't doubt that he was barking-mad. Doesn't mean I don't agree with some of his thoughts - but his methods are discrediting them. Which is a pitty because there's probably other people out there trying to advance the same ideas without the circus lights.
Just have it featured on Monster Garage and we'll be back in space in no time.....with chrome headers, multi-pipes, and air scoops that serve no purpose in orbit.
The science may not be the deepest, but hey - we'd have the most bitchin' ride this side of the solar system.
Slashdot Mirror
Just as soon as most loons still using win98 stop asking - "so how much is Microsoft Word for Linux cost"?
If they get an answer for that - then Linux is SO in with those folks.
That would explain it - although that sucks because I like the Borders near me better. It's still a frustrating mag from the stand point that UK releases lag behind the states making some of the articles FAR behind the products compared to normal pubs which are merely lagging behind the web.
I never even looked at the subscription cost - holy crap - over 130.00? Haven't the english figured out the value of advertsing metrics tied to a hard-subscription model? That's why pubs are cheap in the US. I used to work for Pulizer publishing, and the most reputable numbers to use as a guide for ad-buys were those from actual subscriptions vs. the shot in the dark at the newstand. If you include the pass-through (sharing) of magazines sent to homes the numbers increase pretty heavily. That's why the subscription is basically at-cost or subsidized to the point of postage. It's worth far-far more than the money spent on advertising, and it generates more revenue.
Of course the UK can't be bothered with these obvious facts, and would rather gouge the hell out of the reader. Nice. Suddenly I feel like quite the patriot at the moment - but I can't stand W. Bush. BLAH.
I think I'll have a lie-down...
Joystik and Video Games circa the early 80s were decent. The latter had great long articles, and the former - aside from the large strategy guides - had the best artwork and layout of any game-publication of it's time.
Edge is nice, but the delay in the UK releases - and that PRICE - make it a rare buy for me. In fact, I haven't seen it around Borders in the SF Bay area for a while now. Was it discontinued?
Careful - if you even hint that you like sony - you'll be modded into the toilet by the Nintendo fanboys. So will I, but fuck-it.
Or put another way similar to "digg" - lessie over 110 million PS2s sold - OM(fucking)G! PONIES!!!!!???! Someone likes PLAYSTATION? Holy fucking SHIT!!!!!
Millions? Thousands? I'd be happy if he just worked on more than 2 (Zelda and Mario).
I read the article - although I'll admit I'm amazed that you claimed you did. Your literacy rate is somehow - lacking.
While you're at it - why not go back to Digg? There's lots of retards there for you to play with!
re:"As much as I would like to make fun of Quayle, mosquitoe is the British spelling much like colour is the British spelling of color."
And how they spell "food" as "haggis" (and several other astoundingly other non-food sounding varients).
Make it read - Aliens Breeding "Super Mosquitoes" - and it's solid. Ready for the Weekly World News and other fine publications. Perhaps even the theregister.co.uk.
Think it would be great - after hearing the recording goofs portion - to have a video reel of the recording session outtakes included on the DVD extras on the next Futurama compilation?
With John DiMaggio's high energy it sounds like it would be quite a hoot.
Well heck, the cable bill was such a stunning success for all consumers in America when it passed, and of course the Digital Copyright act was also another great win for American consumers as well.
What could go wrong?
The system works.
San Andreas had aliens - in the area 51 lab where you got the flightpack. But you DID PLAY the game didn't you?
OMG!!!???!! There's better plots than GTA?! Holy FUCK!
That's great - that's - really - great.
I think the point was that the article claimed NO plot outside of user-directed play - vs - the real world. Broadside? Meet barn. You missed.
One is narritive and one is background. In your world, "plot" must mean wallpaper, "dialogue" must mean sound effects, and "video game" means pong.
The story was driven by "characters" saying "dialogue" over "scenes", with "plots". Oh I'm sorry -that's fucking "setting" to you. A movie has - um - what then?
Play the game or STFU.
GTA3 - Story about a bank heist double cross and a series of mob bosses that double cross each other plus a media tycoon whose nuts, and the eventual catch up with said bank double cross.
Sounds like a fucking story.
Vice City - Cocaine deal goes bad, you have to track down and infiltrate the guy who did it, pick up a power-hungry parter (or 3) and double cross the origonal family that didn't reward you for going state's evidence.
Sounds like a fucking story.
San Andreas - Bad cops, toss you into the gang wilderness, and you have to build your way up with minor turf wars until you work with regional mob bosses and the governement.
Sounds like a fucking story.
The article - which I read - put out in glowing letters, that the open sandbox nature of the game lent itself for only player driven narritives. This is bullshit. So Mod me down fuckos, or play the goddamn game.
Nice troll - good to see your score reflects that (MOM SLASHDOT IS INSANE AGAIN). The moron was claiming that GTA didn't have a story line. Uh - lessie - that would be 100% wrong. But then you probably didn't play GTA otherwise you'd know that.
I mean What - The - Fuck - those voice actors were just making dialogue tracks for the porn stars?
Fuck you.
I love hearing from the experts how we all suck for even DARING to like Grand Theft Auto.
Give it up already. We told you what we like, now learn - or please - go away.
I Agree with your headline. There is no humor in this. It's fucking sad, and is why America is going down the "tubes".
If you vote - you're just putting more assholes like this in power.
Let them make their own deathbeds, they don't need your help.
Cry to the RIAA baby snuggles. They have this strange thing about unsecured music.
Or you could just go to PirateBay with your friends, but you wouldn't get the cool iTunes store interface. Your loss.
And dig this! The RIAA has been bullying kids and grandmothers! Astounding!
Won't have reached hollywood cannon or audience expectations until a few things have been achieved:
Characters insist on staying in a dangerous situation or location - like an abandonded summer camp - until every single person (save one) is killed by a single protagonist.
When characters find a basement, they proceed to go down regardless of whether it's important to waste time with the basement at all.
If there is a basement, there should be no lights available.
When a toolshed, garage, or cache of supplies is found, the main character will bypass all tools and weapons that would otherwise be usefull, for flashlight or some item that only McGyver could make dangerous.
When the caracter finds himself (or herself) surrounded by undead or hellish circumstances, the opportunity to blattently rip-off (badly) three-stooges routines should not be missed.
Chainsaws - more of them. Can't go wrong with chainsaws. Why does Grand Theft Auto - a decidedly un-horror game - seem to be the only game that really gets-it here?
I'm sure I'm missing out on several hundred other examples - but I've got more work to pretend to do. In the meantime - RE1's "you the master of unlocking things" Jill has only scratched the surface of what is required from gamemakers.
In the interest of not reading the article and thus providing the right amount of fuel needed for a lame question or joke...
What do you mean by "stationary 3 times en route". The thing is going to go from whatever bat-out-of-hell speed it's traveling, to a dead stop - not once, but 3 TIMES during the ascent?
Cartoon physics aside (which are hillariously significant), doesn't subjecting the human body to such rigors resemble something akin to "bug on windshield"?
If that's the case, then we will not only have succeeded in a new form of space travel - but in creating a whole new way of terrifying the next generation of astronauts in a manner unimaginable - at least for a brief moment - before they're turned into a colorful and dramatic splatter.
Just the thing for Fox's next big "extreme idiots killing themselves and losing limbs during tiger attacks and tornadoes while driving at high speed away from the cops and into day-care centers" show.
For people to unleash holy terror on the blackmail circut. I'm amazed how many tools lawmakers provide in this regard.
Now, we can create documents and emails that will create a massive data-trail for the police while shaking down the target all in the privacy of your offshore spoofed server. Brilliant. Ka-Ching!
Thank you America! Thank you!
Nigeria, start your engines!
I'm not sure about that - the cost of flying over there - with entourage, would make this for a rather expensive PR stunt for a man of his means (see wikipedia). I don't doubt for a second that he was serious about the meeting with the French PM. I also don't doubt that he was barking-mad. Doesn't mean I don't agree with some of his thoughts - but his methods are discrediting them. Which is a pitty because there's probably other people out there trying to advance the same ideas without the circus lights.
Just have it featured on Monster Garage and we'll be back in space in no time... ..with chrome headers, multi-pipes, and air scoops that serve no purpose in orbit.
The science may not be the deepest, but hey - we'd have the most bitchin' ride this side of
the solar system.
Now where's my fuzzy dice...
re:" In fact, if Stallman had listened to his critics in the past, Microsoft would still be the only choice"
So there's fewer than 95% of the world's desktops using Microsoft?!
Wow - he sure made a dent in the universe.
Obvously not an American - or even North American - if you're spelling Yeeha, "Yihaa".
So, are we bombing you presently, or did we bomb you in the past - and how are you / did you enjoy it?
And if anyone died - could you give us some details for their exit interview?
Number one: how many fleshy bits flew around after impact.
Number two: were the fleshy bits dog-food shaped, or more like a watermelon exploding?
Number three: did you try to use vinegar to remove the fleshy bits stains from your clothing? Soaking in cold water may also help.
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